Monday, July 2, 2018 Daily Archives

Humira Biosimilars: Amgen Lawsuit ‘Stake in the Ground’ for Others

Amgen will challenge AbbVie’s bestseller Humira in the US from 2023, following a lawsuit settled last year. Other adalimumab developers are likely to receive the same deal, an IP lawyer says. In September 2017, Amgen and AbbVie reached a settlement resolving all pending litigation in relation to the former’s Amjevita, a biosimilar version of the latter’s top-selling monoclonal antibody Humira (adalimumab). Amjevita became the third biosimilar to approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in September 2016, but…